Alexis de Tocqueville

by Alan S. Kahan, John Meadowcroft (Editor)

Overview

Alexis de Tocqueville was the author of two masterpieces, Democracry in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution. In this volume, Alan S. Kahan, one of the world's leading authorities on Tocqueville's work, presents an accessible and rigorous account of the French author's ideas set in the context of his life and times. It sets out the essential tensions and ambiguities in Tocqueville's thought and analyzes the idea that made him such a compelling and insightful thinker.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826483133
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/19/2009
Series:	Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers , #7
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Dr Kahan is the author of Aristocratic Liberalism (Oxford, 1992) and Liberalism in Nineteenth Century Europe (Palgrave, 2003). He was also co-editor of The Tocqueville Reader (Wiley, 2002).

Table of Contents

Each study includes:

a intellectual biography

b historical context

c critical exposition of the thinker's work

d reception and influence

e contemporary relevance

f bibliography including references to electronic resources

g index